fingerprint

It is hard to imagine a more arresting metaphor for literature in wartime than a tattered book in which a single bloody fingerprint repeatedly appears in the margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Jurors were also informed that Walters’ partial fingerprint was found on the white Spencer’s bag holding the cache of stolen firearms that Oxford turned over to police.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Police had fingerprint evidence linking a high-profile councillor to a poison pen letter up to 12 months before he went on to target another politician in a "persistent and wicked" hate mail campaign.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Roberts sent the envelope that contained the threatening letter for forensic analysis, and a fingerprint returned a match to White, according to the criminal complaint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

In the shadowshaper portrait, OP Vernon still had a black fingerprint over his face.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

LOS ANGELES—It felt wrong, getting fingerprints on this brand-new MacBook screen on purpose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

He said these statistical traces are akin to "fingerprints that a criminal leaves at a crime scene."

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Their UV spectra contain fingerprints of chemical elements in their atmospheres while also revealing details about the stellar winds carrying material away from their surfaces.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

“I mean, it’s unbelievable how much of this is done with the pads of his fingers. And all of his fingerprints and thumbprints are crystal clear in the paint.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Well, then. If you picked it up, it’s got your fingerprints on it, too, doesn’t it?”

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

I wasn’t fingerprinted the next day at Paris’ Gare du Nord train station ahead of a Eurostar train to London, either.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Because Cynthia’s white Fiero had been released to Gonzalez before it could be properly fingerprinted, police said it wasn’t useful to the case either.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

From Sunday, non-EU travellers entering Europe's Schengen open-borders zone will gradually be photographed and fingerprinted at border crossings, as the European Union rolls out its much-delayed automated border checks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025

This time, 5,000 men were fingerprinted in the space of a month - and Headley was caught.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025

When she had registered with the Immigration and Naturalization Service upon filing her green card application, Luma had been fingerprinted; her fingers were placed on an ink pad and carefully rolled over the card beneath.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

Molecular fingerprinting revealed compounds associated with pine trees, showing that every sample was dominated by heated coniferous resin or coniferous tar, also called pitch.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Most states need to send cyclospora specimens to the CDC for genetic fingerprinting because their own public-health laboratories can’t do it, Williams said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Because the countries had no official diplomatic ties, it took months of negotiations to arrange that game, and the Iranians required special fingerprinting and security exemptions at the airport.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

Portugal and Italy do not plan on exempting British nationals from Europe's new fingerprinting and facial scanning checks, the European Commission has confirmed.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

But Bertillonage was already being displaced by a more efficient method of identification that was revolutionizing the world of scientific detection: fingerprinting.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann